Microsoft board members determined in 2020 that Bill Gates had to leave the company’s board while they were conducting an investigation into his affair with an employee of Microsoft. WSJ reported that the board members employed a law firm in 2019 to investigate the relationship after an engineer working in the company claimed that she’d had a sexual relationship with Gates, one that allegedly lasted years, people familiar with the subject told the outlet. “Microsoft received a concern in the latter half of 2019 that Bill Gates sought to initiate an intimate relationship with a company employee in the year 2000,” a Microsoft spokesperson told The Epoch Times in a statement. “A committee of the Board reviewed the concern, aided by an outside law firm, to conduct a thorough investigation. Throughout the investigation, Microsoft provided extensive support to the employee who raised the concern.” Gates resigned on March 13, 2020, before …